A fuzzy multi-criteria decision making approach for analyzing the risks and benefits of opening data

Ahmad Luthfi*, Zeenat Rehena, Marijn Janssen, Joep Crompvoets

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Abstract

Governments are releasing their data to the public to accomplish benefits like the creation of transparency, accountability, citizen engagement and to enable business innovation. At the same time, decision-makers are reluctant to open their data due to some potential risks like misuse, sensitivity, ownership, and inaccuracy of the data. The goal of the study presented in this paper is to develop a Fuzzy Multi-Criteria Decision Making (FMCDM) approach to analyze the risks and benefits to determine the decision to open a dataset. FMCDM is chosen due to its capability to measure and weight the relative importance of the criteria. FMCDM need the weighting of criteria as input. For this Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP) is utilized by collecting input from experts’ knowledge and expertise. The scores for each criterion are summed up to rank the importance of the alternatives. Four main criteria are used, e.g. data sensitivity and data ownership representing risks criteria, and data availability and data trustworthy as benefits criteria. For each criterion, there were two sub-criteria identified. Four types of decisions to open data can be made: completely open, maintain suppression, provide limited access, and remain closed. A health patient record dataset is used to illustrate the approach. In further research, we recommend to develop automated approaches that take a dataset as an input and can provide an advice.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationChallenges and Opportunities in the Digital Era - 17th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2018, Proceedings
PublisherSpringer
Pages397-412
Number of pages16
Volume11195 LNCS
ISBN (Print)9783030021306
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event17th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2018 - Kuwait City, Kuwait
Duration: 30 Oct 20181 Nov 2018

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11195 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference17th IFIP WG 6.11 Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society, I3E 2018
Country/TerritoryKuwait
CityKuwait City
Period30/10/181/11/18

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • Analytic hierarchy process
  • Benefits
  • Fuzzy
  • Multi-criteria decision making
  • Open data
  • Risks

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